Survival Of The Fittest: There's A War Going On Outside

What's happening folks, it's been a good while since I've updated my social commentary blog.  Boy there's been a TON to cover since the last time I've posted anything, but guess what cats and dogs?  I'm BAAAACCCKKK!!!  We'll get right to it.  Warning: if you get offended by anything I'm about to say, I'm not going to apologize so just kindly remove yourself from my life.

One of my favorite anthems of all-time is Mobb Deep's "Survival Of The Fittest", hence the title of the piece.  Prodigy starts off the cut by stating "There's a war going on outside no man is safe from/you can run but you can't hide forever" That especially rings true today.  Over the weekend, two NYPD officers got gunned down in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn, NY in a violent ambush.  Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were both shot in the head from a vengeful Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who later turned the gun on himself.  Leading up to the bloody attack, Brinsley reportedly shot his ex-girlfriend in the stomach not long before he went to social media and bragged that he was "about to put wings on some pigs", supposedly out of response to the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the non-indictments of the officers involved.

After the subsequential epidemic of cops killing ordinary unarmed citizens over the past few years, especially within this year, the story of someone going vigilante (at least in his mind) doesn't surprise me.  Although there have been peaceful protests and marches stating 'Black Lives Matter", "All Lives Matter", or "Hands Up, Don't Shoot", there have also been counters to these protests and marches with people wearing shirts saying "#icanbreathe", which is obviously a slap in the face to the shirts that express anger towards the NYPD and their handling of Eric Garner that states "icantbreathe", as well as slogans that supporters of the NYPD came up with that stated "Breathe Easy...Don't Break the Law!"  From coast to coast, people virtually of all races have expressed outrage, frustration and anger to what appeared to be deaf ears about the injustices that various families have been experiencing.  We all knew that once the Ferguson fiasco happened, things would never be the same and would in fact get worse.  This is one case I wish I was wrong.

This is the part where I start ranting, so beware.  First off, anyone that condones what Brinsley did should should be wholeheartedly ashamed of themselves.  What purpose does offing two cops for nothing serve?  This cat didn't do it for the Brown family, Garner family or no other family for that matter.  First of all this cat had somewhat of a tracklist of crimes such as robbery in a couple of states.  Furthermore, how the hell did he do it for anybody else besides himself when he nearly killed his ex-girlfriend, who by the way is still in critical condition?  Plus he wanted to make himself an instant celeb by tweeting that he was going to commit the act (oh yeah, and he got reportedly over three hundred likes via Instagram by the way, like there are some real pieces of shit out here).  With all this being said, I feel sorry for these officers personal families and the friends that they left behind.  However, let's do a little history lesson.  Remember Amadu Dialo?  What about Sean Bell?  These are just a couple, a mere couple, of guys that had been gunned down like animals.  Did the NYPD give a damn about their families?  They clearly don't give two damns about Garner's.  There have been a terrible amount of families who have been unfortunately deeply affected from loss at the hands of the people that are supposed to protect and serve us.  There's also a video of a young twelve-year-old boy cuffed and detained, then a cop comes from behind and starts swinging away at this kid, who as I just said had been cuffed and detained.  Multiple other vids have popped up of cops brutalizing and/or harassing citizens, whom presented themselves as no physical harm or danger.  Here's the real:  there are SOME good cops out there that are doing their jobs, and I'm not going to say some of us don't put ourselves in very stupid situations so not all the blame can be put on cops, but what can be placed on them is the shooting of unarmed citizens, and then there's no accountability.  These sons of bitches are not being held accountable  thanks to these grand juries.  I'm not sure what's on these jurors minds that would make these assholes walk freely but now the blood is on these jurors hands.  These jurors have to walk around knowing they let killers walk and go free and live their lives smiling and happy go lucky, while these family don't have an ounce of justice to stand on, fucking cowards.  I don't feel sorry for the NYPD as a whole.  Nope.  Sorry.  I feel sorry for the individuals and their families.  Not the NYPD.  Fuck them as an organization because they protect and serve themselves.  Sure we call on them when there's an emergency situation we may need taken care of, but now we have to be under the assumption that somehow there will be some bullshit attached to us even calling.  Remember Marissa Alexander, the woman who fired warning shots at her abusive ex husband who had broke into her house?  Yeah let's not forget the fact that she was originally sentenced to thirty-three years in prison.  For self-defense????  Evidently, the "Stand Your Ground" law that states that you can fire upon someone if you fear severe bodily harm on your premises only goes for certain people.  Fortunately it got overturned, but stuff like this shows that even extreme distress, there's a chance we can't even depend on the people we're calling on to help us, and we may even mess around and get prosecuted somehow.  We'll get prosecuted and jailed if we take the law into our own hands, but we have to trust these cats to help us out of situations that require help or there may be impending death?

These are the issues we face, and I won't limit it to just Blacks, but Blacks are the ones the media show the most getting disrespected, abused, arrested, jailed, and murdered by the system that our tax dollars are paying to stay employed.  Rapper The Game caught some heat for a caption he posted a day after the murders of the Brooklyn officers occurred saying "Guess y'all can't breathe now either huh?" on IG and Twitter.  When asked to clarify his post, he stated that it was in response to those clown ass guys that was wearing the "#icanbreathe" t-shirts and smiling.  Now there's a hint of possible war against protestors and anti-police groups in New York.  Let's get this straight: it didn't become a "war" until two innocent cops got outted in broad daylight, but cases like Brown, Garner, Martin, Bell, Dialo, and the many others that have occurred.  I do have a bit of vengeance in my heart for those parasite assholes that made the lives of families living hells for them, but the cops that were gunned down in Brooklyn had nothing to do specifically with any of the situations.  When it comes down to it, all lives DO matter, even cops.  To the ones that are out here, just doing their job and have no ill will agendas or profiling issues, keep doing your thing, and we need more like you.  However, to those that aren't anything but crooked asses, who use the badge and gun to cover the fact that they're really KKK sons of bitches, you keep on doing what you're doing too, only problem is there will be more Issmaaiyl Brinsleys out there, and there are more of them than you think.  There truly is a war developing, right here in our own country.  The war isn't as much about racism, as it is about injustice.  This WON'T continue to be peaceful.

Until next time kiddies, stay safe this holiday season, and remember, keep your hands up, and pray they don't shoot!  However, to play devil's advocate, don't put yourselves in positions either to where incidences may occur.  Use your heads and celebrate life.  Before I go, I'm going to leave a certified hip-hop classic, one that's timeless, and in these times, still hold true, in fact now more than ever since the release of the song in '93, KRS-One's "Sound Of The Police", from his AMAZING masterpiece Return Of The Boom Bap album.  R.I.P. Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and all other innocent victims of the pigs, but also R.I.P. officers Liu and Ramos.  Prayers go out to their families during this time.